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Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake

Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet after Pluto in the Kuiper Belt. The ...
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Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit

This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our Moon. Astronomers didn’t aim NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study Tycho, however. The image was ...
Astronomy

The Hubble Space Telescope discovers another moon around Pluto

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey ...
KTVU

Ganymede: Hubble Telescope finds 1st evidence of water vapor on Jupiter’s moon

Astronomers have discovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, according to a study released in the journal Nature Astronomy. Previous research provides evidence ...
Futurism

NASA’s Hubble Finds Evidence of Water Vapor on One of Jupiter’s Moons

Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists say they’ve found the first-ever evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. It’s an exciting discovery that ...
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NASA's Hubble discovers another moon around Pluto

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite – temporarily designated P4 -- was uncovered in a Hubble survey ...